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are there any MMEs making money? - underpaid

Posted: Dec 15, 2009

Seriously inquiring as to whether or not there are MMEs out there making what they made when they were just QA. If so, do you have full listen reports for more than half your day? If so, do you have any helpful hints? MT/MEs are moving into the MME positions and I feel so bad that they have no idea what they are getting themselves into. Hope you all make more than me. As of the new year I will be looking for different employment. So sad 20 years later and I'm no longer needed in my best capacity. :-(

clarification - underpaid

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sorry, clarification...MMEs that came from just being QA. I have a feeling that MT/MEs who make good money to begin with may not suffer as much as we who were "blessed to be given this position". Maybe I'm wrong and I'd like to hear from those who made that transition from MT/ME to MME and see how they do it too. thanks

money making - MT/ME to MME

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I went from MT/ME to MME. It was my choice, and I do not regret it. My PTO pay rate actually increased very slightly this last time. I don't suppose this will happen again because I have been 100% QAing 99% of my reports for the last month or so. MQ's idea, not mine! I do think it would be difficult to go back to transcribing after only doing QA for years and years.

Getting paid min. wage for 90% full ESL and - difficult dictator QA

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Can't quit. My other job is going to front end voice editing so will need a new job better paid than MQ to replace it. Have tested with a company in Calif and one in the mid West and will go with one of them. I'm hanging on with MQ part-time though and glad to be getting min. wage considering I only really make about half that due to the full QA on ESL. Absolutely need 2 jobs at this point just to pay basic bills--although I am a little behind in the electric and cable bills right now.

I meant to say behind in high-speed internet - bill - through cable co.(NM)

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NM

awful, awful, awful - underpaid

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even with the reimbursement for internet through the Q it's almost impossible to keep up with the bill. sorry to hear that you too are suffering, but thanks for the reply.

How do you get reimbursement for internet????? - What the ...

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Man, I don't get that!

reimbursement - underpaid

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Don't have an answer for you on that one. Always have been reimbursed since being full-time QA before the switch to MME. Though it is certainly possible that that will be taken away now too with everything else.

Is anybody else being reimbursed for Internet? nm - Worker Bee

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Reimbursement was taken away several years ago. Why not for you? nm - mtt

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probably - underpaid

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I can't answer that. Were you ever QA? Maybe it was only QA that got it, I don't know.

why is my question not being answered? - underpaid

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This always amazes me. Somone will ask a question on here and rather than receiving an answer you get questioned for other things you've mentioned. If you aren't a former QA person or an MT/ME who has taken on the MME position then why are you responding? Much like the Q, I don't know why I bother cuz no one ever answers anything. I should just go skiing, nuff snow out here.

You get reimbursement for Internet? - Worker Bee

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I was told years ago that they would no longer be doing that. I have DSL and pay $25.00 a month for it. Please advise. Thanks.

I have a satellite and pay $85 a month. Nothing else available. nm - met

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What reimbursement for the Internet might you - be referring to ? (NM)

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NM

I tried the MME position several months, and - sm

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when it was apparent that it wasn't going to get any better & will actually be getting even worse, I left. When I was an MME, I was making about HALF what I was making as a QA. It's not worth it.

Minimum wage also -- 99% ESL - MT Tired

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Yep, in same boat. I hate starting my shift with MQ. I can't wait to find something else. I've had it with this. MQ keeps announcing they add accounts constantly but our pay keeps dropping and dropping. Why? Yes, this is a complainer and I'm sick of MQ. Looking for something else as I'm tired of being ripped off by MQ. It should not be this way after working for them for so long. They do not value MTs only the dollar involved.

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